Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in a pace of Europe 2020

Horizon 2020 objectivesEXCELLENT SCIENCE:•support the most talented and creative individuals and their teams to carry out frontierresearch;•Collaborative research & support for Future and Emerging Technologies;•provide researchers with excellent training and career development opportunities;•ensure Europe has world‐class research infrastructuresINDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP – businesses set the agenda:• build leadership in enabling and industrial technologies, with dedicated support forICT, nanotechnologies, advanced materials, biotechnology, advanced manufacturingand processing, and space, key enabling technologies;• facilitate access to risk finance;• provide Union wide support for innovation in SMEs.SOCIETAL CHALLENGES:• Health, demographic change and wellbeing;• Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research and the• bio‐economy;• Secure, clean and efficient energy;• Smart, green and integrated transport;• Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials;• Inclusive, innovative and secure societies.